"I don't know much about art, but I know what I like"

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Tue Jul 31 04:14:14 UTC 2001


   AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN QUOTATIONS has it:

I don't know anything about music, really, but I know what I like.
--GELETT BURGESS, "Bromide no. 1,"
in _Are You a Bromide?_, 1906
(Burgess was making fun of this cliche, so useful to the uninformed.  He coined this sense of _bromide_, see Burgess under DIFFERENCES.)

   But maybe the citation is still useful for "art" in place of "music"?



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